Serum-purified Schwann cell cultures. Sciatic nerves were dissected ... immediately fixed in 4% PFA in PBS for 10 min, teased on microscope slides and allowed to dry. The samples were incubated ...

The researchers use microscopy imaging — where a microscope zooms in on very small details — to take photos and make brief time-lapse movies. “We saw the Schwann cells lining up within the tubes and ...

But then the Schwann cells began to glow as well ... In the 19th century, when pioneering scientists first trained microscopes on gray matter, they were amazed to find a cell unlike any other ...

Scientists show that Schwann cells take over functions of immune cells in nerve healing. Similar mechanisms could prevent nerve tumors from growing. Schwann cells are known to protect and repair ...

This regeneration capacity is mainly attributable to the Schwann cells of the peripheral nervous system. These cells are quick-change artists that can transform themselves into repair cells when ...

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, says a key protein in Schwann cells performs a critical, perhaps overarching ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the safety of transplanting human Schwann cells to treat patients with paralysis. It is the first such trial in ...